[xquery-talk] calculated attribute/ namespace name

[Michael Kay]

@*[local-name() eq $attribute and namespace-uri() eq $namespace]

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at x-query.com 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at x-query.com] On Behalf Of Uwe Küssner
> Sent: 15 August 2007 14:22
> To: talk at x-query.com
> Subject: [xquery-talk] calculated attribute/ namespace name
> 
> hello,
> 
> a short question, i hope somebody can help.
> 
> Let's say we have a XML documents like this:
> 
> <ele xmlns:a="aa"  xmlns:b="bb"  name="foo" a:name="bar"  
> b:name="foobar"  b:x="y" />
> 
> The namespace names and attributes are not known before 
> runtime, during runtime of a xquery script we have two 
> variables of type string, for
> example:
> $namespace := "bb"
> $attribute :="name"
> 
> here is the question: how can we extract the value of the 
> attribute named $attribute with namespace name $namespace?
> In the example the value of  "b:name", i.e. "foobar".
> 
> thank you very much
> 
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